Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

* In Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Helsingør fires mortar shells at the heroes in book seven, The Surgeon's Mate, as they sail past on their way to a rendezvous in the Baltic.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

Vostrikov orders a series of diving maneuvers during which he directs Polenin to simulate a number of emergencies including fires and flooding while he times the crew's response.

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires ( such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches ), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.

A series of devastating fires struck the port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early in the 19th century.

* Telchines appear in the fourth book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth under the name Telkhines, where they remade the scythe of Kronos in the fires of Mount St. Helens and claim to have made Poseidon's trident.

The Coast Range behind Tillamook was the scene of a repeated series of forest fires called the Tillamook Burn between 1933 and 1951.

Berengaria was sold for scrap in 1938 after a series of fires.

Because the medieval city was largely built of wood and stone houses were the exception, fire was a constant risk and a series of fires in 1517, 1750 and again on 7 May 1862 earned the people from Enschede the nickname Brandstichters ( arsonists ).

A series of fires and floods, as well as an earthquake, destroyed the town and filled the Slough with silt during the 1860s.

Also beginning near the Estates, the Witch Fire began October 21, 2007 and was part of a series of fires that ravaged Southern California.

A series of other fires leveled Holland and Manistee, Michigan, as well as Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Chicago on the same day.

A 1918 series of fires that destroyed a block of the town's main street was attributed to anti-German crusaders.

Due to a series of arson and fires beginning in the 1970s, Antlers lost a number of its stores, changing the character of its downtown.

The mill operations closed in 1984, after a series of fires.

A series of fires in the early 1890s, probably set to collect insurance on unprofitable properties, destroyed many of the new business establishments.

A series of fires destroyed East Charleston May 18, 1921, and West Charleston on the following day.

However, a series of disastrous fires, the first in 1900 and then two more in 1914, virtually wiped out the business district, depriving the Town of much of its earliest architectural heritage.

With the government nearly bankrupt, and series of devastating structural fires that swept through the downtown area and nearly took down every high rise the city had so feverishly built, the city was nearly destroyed.

Luna Park closed in 1946 after a series of fires, and the New York street gang problems of the 1950s spilled into Coney Island.

A political stalemate between the French-and English-speaking legislators, as well as fear of aggression from the United States during and immediately after the American Civil War, led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a series of mass rallies called tabori, modeled on the Irish monster meetings, were organized in support of the United Slovenia program.

* GatewaySet in the late 1860s, the series tells the story of two brothers as they try to build a new life after the Civil War in a town called Gateway.

Wheatland was home to a significant Chinese American community in the 1860s, but all of the Chinese American residents were driven out of town in a series of violent confrontations in February 1886.

The series explores the economic history of England from the 1860s to the outbreak of the First World War.

During the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic works such as Femme nue couchée.

These lasted into the 1860s, when they were replaced by the single Bihang series ( meaning: supplement to the transactions ).

In the 1860s, Willard suffered a series of personal crises: both her father and her younger sister Mary died, her brother became an alcoholic, and Willard herself began to feel love for a woman who would ultimately go on to marry her brother.

The Druze viewed these Maronite settlements as a threat to their power in Mount Lebanon and in a series of clashes in the 1840s and 1860s, a mini civil war erupted in the area resulting in the massacre of thousands of Christians.

The success of a series of campaigns in the 1860s marked a turning point in Rangers ' history.

At the local level the various nationalities gained a great deal of control over provincial and municipal affairs after a series of reforms in local government in the 1860s and 1870s.

As Minister of War 1859 – 1873 Roon, along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Prussia's government during the key decade of the 1860s, when a series of successful wars against Denmark, Austria and France led to German unification under Prussia's leadership.

Because of its strategic position on the approaches to Bristol and Cardiff a series of gun emplacements, known as Flat Holm Battery, were built in the 1860s as part of a line of defences, known as Palmerston Forts.

He is notable for his series of conservation photographs of the Yosemite Valley in the 1860s that significantly influenced the United States Congress ' decision to establish the valley as a National Park in 1864.

He became famous for his series of photographs and historic stereoviews of Yosemite Valley in the 1860s that helped influence Congress ' decision to establish the valley as a National Park in 1864.

Crossing the Back Rivers by a series of low-level bridges is the Northern Outfall Sewer which leads to the Abbey Mill Pumping Station, both of which were designed by Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s.

The Sheffield Outrages were a series of explosions and murders by a small group of trade unionist militants carried out in Sheffield in the 1860s.

In the 1850s and 1860s, a series of reformers were demanded by local Cubans.

A political stalemate between the French-and English-speaking legislators, as well as fear of aggression from the United States during the American Civil War, led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies.

The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns short of men.

Thomas William Robertson ( 9 January 1829 – 3 February 1871 ), usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an English dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W. S.

Basal readers have been in use in the United States since the mid 1860s, beginning with a series called the McGuffey Readers.

Waikato's ( or more specifically Ngāti Maniapoto's ) involvement in the Taranaki war against the Government forces in the 1860s can be traced back to Te Wherowhero's long series of attacks against the Taranaki iwi Te Āti Awa.